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fflEIDM w--j -y ji . M I MaSazine-Cburcli -N W J i ' '' " ---- i I : FORTIETH -JEAB. lp.'-256 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS 8?"S,rV5SW . ;: ..- -... .... .. 10 Willamette Valley News j f Liberty. Bond iQuota . (United Press Staff Correspondent.) . ' ! Dallas, Or., Oct. 27. According to e report issued by the Liberty Bond sales committee the second Liberty Loan bonds have been oversubscribed in this eity to the amount of several thous and dollars. W. G. Vassell, vice-president of the Dallas City Bank and one of the members of the local sales com mittee received a message from the Liberty Loan Publicity committee at Portland, Thursday morning stating that Polk County had gained one point in the list over night and that Dallas was making the best showing of any eity in her class in the entire state. At both banks yesterday the sale of bonds continued and the committee are certain that at the close of business Saturday night the amount will be over subscribed a still larger amount than lias been expected. Polk Live Stock does to Seattle. The Dalles Moat Company this week (hipped two carloads of sheep and one carload of cattle to the Carstin Pack ing Company of Seattle. The stock was purchased throughout the county by Claude Lewis, stock buyer for the local concern. Dallas Women Attending Convention. Mrs. Oscar' Hayter, Mrs. George T. Ctorlinger and Miss Katherine Bureh or the Dallas Woman's Club are in Prine ville this week attending the annual convention of the Btate federation of Woman's clubs. Mrs. Hayter is pres ident of the local organization. Methodist Pastor, Honored at Eeception The congregation of the Dallals Methodist church - gave .? a " reception. Wednesday evening in the church par lors in honor of their new pastor, Eev. J. S. Johnson. A-short literary, and musical program was rendered after which the ladies of the church served light refreshments. Farm Home Destroyed by Fire , The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guthrie located about three miles south of this city on the Dallas-Falls City road was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night together with most of its contents only a feathor bed and a writing desk being saved. The fire started from the explosion of a gasoline lamp in the bedroom of their son, Les ter, and in a few minutes the flames had spread to every part of the house. Besides the household goods Mr. Guth rie had just finished the harvesting of his been crop and they togother with about 300 quarts of fruit were also destroyed. The loss was covered by in surance and Mr. Guthrie will begin rebuilding the residence next week. Dallas Postmaster Buys Farm V. P. Pisko, postmaster of this city this week purchased through the Ellis Realty Company the T. E. Dulaney farm consisting of some 62 1-2 acres and located about two miles southeast of here. The place has on it one of the finest young prune orchards to bo found in this vicinity and it is the intention of the new owner to plant additional acres to prunes. Dallas Boy Joins Company L. Frank E. Kersey, a former business man of this city joined Company L at Clackamas, Tuesday and left with that "UNCLE IS CALLING" THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN Uncle is calling he askg for a loan You have heard of your " Uncle ' before But listen: this Uncle is really your own Not the one with three balls at Us door! Uncle is falling hc'd just like to know If you'll lond hint some- money to fight V .: And remember, he's got to have money to go Lend him something, if only a mite I Uncle Is calling yonH answer him, sure ' He has needs that have got to be met He'll pay you good interest, your money's secure And rSBiember, vou owe him a debtl Uncle Is calling he's called once before Every nephew should fight or chip in' Won't yon stand by your Uncle your Country AT WABt If not, don't expect him to win I Uncle is calling oh, don't tarn him down! He has guarded our interests so well A loan to vour Uncle not tax to a crown For FEEEDOM your dollars will tell! Uncle is calling to you and to me And he's waiting to hear what well do This loan will Protect our great Xjand of the Free And preserve us the Hod, Wh-te and Bluet JOHN NELSON STEWABT, Jr. company r-for rans unknown .destination in the east last night. Mr. Kersey at tempted to join the. draft army at Camp Lewis several weeks ago but was re: jetted on account of his age. He re cently disposed ot his confectionery and candy business on Main street to G. O. Grant. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Meyer of Bebo are in the city visiting relatives this week. Mr. Meyers was formerly as sessor of Polk county. Carl B. Williams, superintendent of the Valley & Siletz railway was in Dal las, Thursday visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Wil liam'. Mr. William's headquarters are in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. James Leach end fam ily of Portland, ere guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Young. Mr, end Mrs. John Webster have re turned from a summer's stay at New port and will make Dallas their home the coming winter Mrs. Mary F. Lee of Portland, is in Dallas looking after property interests in this vicinity. George T, Gerhngor, manager of the Willamette Valley Lumber Company, is .in Portland this week looking after business for the company. Ed Richmond was a Capital City bus iness visitor Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. John Bird, and niece, Miss Dorothy Murray left Thursday after noon for St. Joseph, Missouri, where Tiey will spend the winter with rela tives. JeTry Driscoll of Sheridan was a Dal las visitor this week. Mr. Driscoll was formorly a Dallas resident. City Engineer, S. B. Taylor, who has been engaged in surveying work near Klamath Falls this summer was in the city for a short? time Wednesday leav ing for Cherry Grove where he has more engineering work to do. Thomas Ingram who has been work ing for the past several months at the American Lake training camp doing construction work returned to his home in Dallas, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fenton, Mrs. Bertha Toner and Mrs. Ella J. Metzger visited the Company L boys at Clack amas, Wednesday. Woodhurn Retail Merchants Postpone Annual Corn Show (Capital Journal Special Servico) Woodburn, Oct. 27. The Woodburn Retail Merchants association held their banquet Wednesday evening at tho ar mory. On account of the condition of the corn and there being so many de mands of the war, it was decided to postpone the corn show for a year. Tlie old officers were re-elected for anoth er year. The Honor Guard are giving a pig Hallowe'en carnival Wednesday night, Oct. 31, and promise all a good time. There will be booths, mysterious dens an' a Jitney dance. Willard Bonney visited a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bonney, he expects to start east Fri day with his company, he having en listed again. Miss Stimson of Seattle is visiting at tne borne of her cousin, Mrs. VV. t. uatcneu. There will be a reception at the M. E. church this Friday evening, in hon or of Dr. and Mrs. Decker, all members and triends are invited to be oresent to help welcome Mr. and Mrs. Decker back to our church and city. J. M. W. Bonney returned home AD Marion County Covered by Campaign to Conserve Food Organization in the food substitu tion niovemerir is making splendid pro gress ju Salem and throughout Marion county and all is i,n readiness for the big Hoover family pledge card cam paign for next week. Manager Ivan McDaniel. of the Com mercial club, who is managing the af fairs of the Marion county food admin istration, has covered the circuit of all the towns in Marion county outside of Salem and reports much interest and entnusiasm in the work. As soon as the liberty loan campaign is over the ac- tivitv in thfl fmul flprvlfa mnvAmnnt will be renewed and then it is proposed to carry the campaign through with a zest that spells succcbs without perad venture of dcnibt. . Yesterday he visited Stayton, Aums ville, Sublimity Turnor, Marion and Jefferson and found the local commit tees keenly alive to the importance of the food substitution movement and anxious to get to active work. Meetings are Demg arranged in all of the towns of the county and Chairman George T. watson, of tne speakers' committee, has promised all of the chairmen of the different communities that he will provide speakers for these meetings. Many of the yousg attorneys of Sa lem are coming forward and offering tneir services . out he can use several more and will appreciate it very much if anyone who can spare some time in tho evenings will call him us and vol unteer his services. Women speaktrVs can be used to excellent advantage in tne food campaigs, as they are in po sition to speak with authority of ex perience end their arguments would have supreme -weight with the house wives upon whom the great burden of food saving and waste elimination wiWi fall. A tender of their services as speak ers for meetings inside and outBido of Salem will also be very acceptable and greatly appreciated . by the Marion county food administration. The women of Salem are responding to tne call for volunteer workers with an alacrity that docs them proud and the Salem committee hopes that scores of them will volunteer their service for next Week's clean up campaign in the home pledge card and membership cam paign. Some of the ladies of Salem are making a quiet canvass of the homes and ure securing volunteers through this means. County School Superintendent W. M. Smith reports that excellent and most encouraging progresses baisg made in the school districts outside of incorpo rated towns and that he has abundant confidence in the unqualified success of the campaign in the country dis trict. He says there are 15 meetisirs scheduled in the school districts of the county for tonight and that arrange ments art being made for meetings dur ing the balance of this week and 'all next week. Middle Acred Are Here Told the Best Remedy for Their Troubles. Freemont, O. "1 was passing through the critical period of life, being forty-Bix years of age and had all the symptoms incident to that change heat flashes, nervousness, and was in a general run down condition, so it was hard for me to do my work. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me as the best remedy for my troubles, which it surely proved to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since taking it, and the annoying symptoms nave disap peared." Mrs. M. Goddbn, 925 Napoleon St, Fremont, Ohio. " North Haven, Conn. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound restored my health after everything else bad failed when passing through change of life. There is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms." Mrs. FlobescB 1sella,Box 197, North Haven, Conn. t. v . l ' DTBFA EJPINKHAMS IfEGEI&BIE COMPOUND fm tJas "(pstosi rs?d fbff'&a matcst gd -tYOlA C.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. Wednesday from the Silverton hospit al, the operation being a success. Li. il. Bitney, who has been visitine his daughter, Mrs. H. W. Grass, Jr., at lja urosse, Kan., also at Kansas City and in South Dakota, returned home Tuesday. Ho reports snow in 8. D. and ivansas, and was glad to get back to the Willamette valley. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Eramctt, H. A. Cornell and Miss Lillian Cornell motor ed Sunday to Corvallis to spend the day at the home of S. Cornell. iWonian's club held their annual recep tion at the beautiful home of Mr. anj Mrs. F. W. Scttlemcir,- tendered to the teachers, woodmirn Ketail Merchants association and their wives, and the members of the club and their hus bands. Mrs. E. N. Hall the president of the club, made the address of welcome. Bupt. W. J. Mishler responding for the teachers and Sec. w. t Buse for the merchants association. Where wais a xylophone solo by Wendell Kent; read ing by Miss Bonney and a vocal solo by-Miss Turley. Cakes and punch were served by the Misses Velma Bents and Helen Kent. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnston are mov ing fo Woodburn from Oak Eidge, Or., and are the guests of Mrs. Geo. .bonney while getting settled in the Smith house on 2d street. Companv I auxiliary will give a dance Saturday night at the armory, the proceeds to be used to buy material to be made up for the members of Co. Mrs. J. H. Collins and niece met Supt Collins of Carbonado, Wash., Friday in rortland. spending the week end on their Jtaimer farm. Mrs- H. Overton is visiting in Port land at the home of her sister. Miss Ida Hendricks, .who is attend ing the O. A. C. at Corvallis, spent the week end at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. ilend ricks. Mrs. Frank Barkman and daughter, Arda of tellers station spent Tuesday here, visiting relatives. Mrs. H. L. Moore and daughter, Mar garet, were i'ortland visitors Saturday. The M. E- church choir was enter tained by Hev. and rs. E. G. Decker at tho parsonage Wednesday evening. The evening was spent with games and music, refreshments being served in allowe'en style bv the hostess. colonel -Poorman addressed a meet ing on food conservation, at Gervais Thursday evening. Dewev Bitney of the O. A. C. was home for the week end. Mrs. W. W. Rhodes and child of The Dalles are visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H- Richards. German Spies Operating at Vancouver Barracks and Precautions Taken Vancouver, Wash., Oct. 26. German spies are" operating in the arhiy post here according to evidence gathered to day. - -V A number of army mules have been stabbed with a pointed instrument, mak ing it necessary to kill several. Efforts have been made to poison the water which supplies the barracks, and, it i: persistently reported, poisoned bread has been found. The post commander today flatly de nied that a German liad been shot as he tried to gain entrance to the bar racks bakery. Both inside and outside guards at the post have been doubled and the activi ties of the , alleged enemy agents have been decreased. Colonl Jones, post commander, admit ted today that army authorities were conducting a vigorous investigation of alleged attempts to poison the camp's source of water. Repeated attempts to poison the water are said to have been made. Evidence indicates that the plotting is the work of German agents within the military reservation. Evidently the plotters are soKliers or employes at the post. Although Colonel Jones refused to make such a statement, it is under stood from the various precautionary measures the army authorities take this view. Asked concerning the report that a spy was shot as he entered the post bakery, Calonel Jones said: "Although we are doing everything in our power to put an end to this work, we have not reached a stage whore we shoot ' a .i 1 . l . 1 . 'II. spies auu tueu conceal me Auiuig. . j of land from his father and begun to establish a home on it. F. R: Brown, county agent, wa'g at the prune orchard of J. E. Waltman this week giving edvice in regard to some trouble -Mr. Waltman has been having, his idea was "It is not good practice to force young trees too much." A meeting was 'held at the school house Friday eve in connection with the government project of food con-1 servation. Our school district has been chang ed, placing Mr. Van Trump, Al Cline j Go to Church Sunday Subjects of Sermons and Where They Will Be Delivered in Salem Houses of Worship, Tomorrow First Methodist. No 1228 North Winter street. Sun day servises: Sabbath school 9:45; Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:45 p. m. W. J. Johnston, pastor. West Salem Methodist Episcopal. Minister W. J. Warren, Sunday school 3 p. m. Preaching service 7:30. Ladies' Aid society meets on the second and fourth Thursday of the month at 2:30 p. m. Castle Chapel, Church of the United Brethren In Christ. Corner of 17th and Nobraska. Engle wood. Morning service, 10:00 Sunday school, W. W. ROsebaugh, superintend ent, 11:00 preaching by the pastor, Rev. F. H. Neff. Afternoon Berviee, 7:00 Y. P. 8.. C. E. Lacey Peoples, presi dent 8:00; Preaching by the pastor. Thursday nights prayer nieoting, led by the class leader, W. A. Rosebaugh. All services open to general public and all made welcome. (Continued on page three) First M. E. Church. State and Church streets. R. N. Avi son, minister, Class meeting 9:15 a. m. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Mr. John W. Todd, superintendent. Sermon 11 a. in. Subject, "A Nation in Prayer." 3 p. m. Rev A. F. Lacy, will speak at the Old People's Home. 6:30 the Epworth League. First, Kennoth Legg, president; Second, Harland Hunt, President; Jun ior, Mrs. M. C. Findley, superintendent. 7:30 p. m. Sermon, Martin Luther and the Protestant- Reformation.". The Six O'clock club will meet Tuesday evening. Address by Sonator C. L. Mc Nary. First Baptist Church. Dr. G .F. Holt's topics at the First Baptist church will be in observance of World Outlook Day, and Luther's four hundredth anniversary. The topic at 11 a. m. will be "Our Vision and Our Task"; at 7:30 "The Man, the Book, and The Message." Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Junior meeting at 3 p. m. Young Teople's meeting at 6:30 p. m. First Congregational Church. Jauies Elvin, pastor. Sunday school meets promptly at ten o'clock. W. I. Staley, superintendent. Morning service at eleven o'clock. Musie morning and evening by chorus choir direction of Wm. McGilchrist, Sr. Subject for morn ing sermon, "Symbols of Salvation.'! Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:30. Pleasant Sunday Evening Service. Chorus choir, song sermon, instructive address. Special music. Moving pictures. A delightful way in which to spend an hour on Sunday evening. All strangers especially welcomed. Subject of sermon. "From Dooraill to Doorsill" Everybody invited. Tuesday evening, Organ Reci tal at 8:15 on new organ by Dr. Wilbur Chaco of Willamette University. Thurs day evening service at 7:30 Studies in gospel of Matthew. Sural Congregational. H. C. Stover, minister. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Christian endeavor at 7:45 p. m. Morning worship at 11 b ,m. . Central Congregational. Corner south 19th and Ferry streets, H. C. Stover, minister. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Prof. E. A. Hancock, su perintendent. No morning sermon. Jun ior Christian endeavor at 3:30 P. M. Seni r Endeavor at 6:45 p. m. Sacred Concort at 7:30 p. m. St. Paul's Church, Episcopal. Robert 8 Gill, rector. Holy commun i. n 7:30 a. m. Matins and address 11 a. m. Subject "The Soul of Mr. Wells" being a discusison of H. G. Wells' new book, "Tho Soul of a Bishop". Even song and address 7:30 p. m. Subject "The Seven Bowls of Wrath" from the 15th and Kith chapters or the Bsok of Revelations. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. The Bungalow Christian Church. 17th and Court. Frank E. Jones, pas tor. Training for service at :30 a. m. , ' (Continued on page three) 1 1 Another Thought j Cl ' . II On Furniture and House Furnishings Did it ever occur to you, when attending a Sale that you didn't always see exact ly what you wanted to buy. Its different here at Moore'sYou can find what you want at the price you want to pay. Stoves and Ranges The cold weather is here, making it necessary to have heat in the house mornings and even ings. Don't put off buying that Heater another day you need it and need it now. We have one of the widest selections in Salem, including , Wood, Coal, Combination Wood and Coal in patterns and styles to suit all, at prices much lower than you find at other stores. HEATERS FROM $1.50 to $22.50 North Howell Notes (Capital Journal Special Service) North Howell, Oct. 27. Some farm ers have decided not to wait for fue rains but have began seeding. A. B. Wiesncr is nlanninz some very substantial improvements at his homi". Carrie Dunn has purchased a tract n ii II ti ti ii ii ti i 1 Pill ilk- II If 11 ti IS 11 M II M II 19 II h Easy Chairs and Rockers During the Winter you will find your living room to be quite an attraction and you should use every effort to make it such. A few easy chairs or rockers will have the desired effect. See our west window display of Overstuffed leather and imitation leather Chairs and note the prices quot ed; Chairs representing comfort at from q 30 I not only can save you money but will You Get More for Your nfi . moore'S y-m Buy a Liberty Bond We will Take It on Purchases j Emm